Mark your calendars for October 2033, the next time everything lines up:
We experienced the super(blood)moon lunar eclipse along with friends and family from West Seattle, Minnesota, and South America on Sunday evening! The convergence of lunar eclipse and full harvest perigree moon is a rare event, and somewhat (un)predictable due to LOTS of different things in motion in the universe. I was able to capture this image of the final stage of the eclipse from my backyard (handheld with my 70-300 zoom lens). Mark your calendars for October 2033, the next time everything lines up:
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What can you do to protect honeybees and all native bees and pollinators?
Do not buy flowering plants that have been treated with neonics Support local & organic beekeepers ::::: Free Posters courtesy of Nora Wildgen at BeeSwell
and, for those of you who want to know more right now...I have two movies for you. Enjoy~ The Invisible Highway on Vimeo Any guesses on which insect has made it as high as 19,000 feet (Mt Logan in Washington)? or who regularly travels at 14,000 ft? or how many bugs are stacked over your head on a summer day?
This brilliant father & son team have invented a device that allows you to harvest honey without taking apart the hive and disturbing the bees. Good for the bees and easy on the beekeepers. On Sunday, Cedar and Stuart Anderson opened an Indigogo account site for crowd-funding and within 24 hours had raised over 2 million dollars=to become the most successful crowd-funding project ever! BeePeeking is a proud sponsor of the Flow Hive and we are excited for the success of their venture. Currently, we only harvest cut-comb honey, so this will be a nice addition to our already less invasive honey harvesting habits. Please visit Flow Hive's Indiegogo campaign to get all the sweet details. For your convenience and viewing pleasure, I have reposted one of Flow Hive's videos for you. Enjoy! Hats off to those creative Aussies! First the Sun Hive and now this:
It's been a long week, and my recommendation for Friday night at the movies is the Piip Show.
You gotta love that Norwegian sense of humor... Next week I will be out in the field doing research on the Oregon silverspot butterfly, Speyeria zerene hippolyta. The Oregon silverspot butterfly is a federally threatened species which has been reduced to just four small salt-spray grassland habitats on the Oregon coast. We'll be monitoring the butterflies at two sites that have been the focus of restored habitat and larvae releases to augment the dwindling populations: Cascade Head, an area that has been the focus of habitat restoration efforts for The Nature Conservancy, and Rock Creek, with habitat restoration by the US Forest Service; additional oversight, plant propagation, and research in conjunction with the US Department of Fish & Wildlife, the USDA National Resources Conservation Service, and Lewis & Clark College. Both the Woodland Park Zoo and the Oregon Zoo are engaged in the population augmentation of this endangered fritillary. We will be gathering data on the success of the released larvae and pupae, as well as celebrating the 2014 release of the Oregon Silverspot IPA at the Pelican Brewery. Do you believe in magic? Michael Durham, an Oregon Zoo photographer, captured the OSB transformation in this time-lapse video: ![]() What do you call a group of starlings? Don't miss this sweet film. Thank you Sophie & Liberty Murmuration |
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